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Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)

January Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationship with yourself. Volunteer to work at a
hospital, clinic, or hospice. Donate blood and sign up to be an organ donor.
Write to legislators and the media in support of strengthening and aggressively enforcing laws
against religion-based discrimination and harassment. Get involved in a group promoting religious
tolerance and understanding.

February Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationship with your children. Do "Spring" cleaning and
give unneeded items to charity. Avoid patronizing TV programs, music, films,
books, magazines, products, and companies that are racist. Get involved with a
group promoting ethnic equality and multiculturalism. Write to legislators and
the media in support of affirmative action programs,
which combat racism's effects and serve as reparation for past and present
racism.

March Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationship with your mother and mother-in-law. Avoid
patronizing TV programs, music, films, books, magazines, products, and companies
that are sexist. Get involved with a group promoting gender equality and
egalitarianism. Write to legislators and the media in support of affirmative action programs,
which combat sexism's effects and serve as reparation for past and present
sexism.

April Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationship with your father and father-in-law. Start an
organic garden to cultivate fruits and vegetables. Organize a party to plant trees in your
neighborhood or a local park. Organize a party to clean up a river, lake, or
beach. Write to your congressmen/women in support of stronger laws to protect
fish from being harvested above the maximum sustainable yield.

May Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationship with your spouse/partner. With your spouse,
review, amend, and renew your wedding vows to reflect an egalitarian partnership
marriage based on mutual love, respect, commitment, and cooperation, in which
all power and responsibility is shared and all property held in common.
Volunteer to work at a domestic violence shelter to help those victimized by the
patriarchal model of marriage based on male power and female obedience. Write to
legislators and the media in support of mandatory arrest, jail time, and counseling for
domestic violence abusers.

June Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with your siblings. Volunteer to work at a local homeless
shelter or soup kitchen. Ask local officials to set aside land for a community
garden to enable the poor and others to grow their own fruits and vegetables.
Write to your congressmen/women in support of stronger laws to protect forests
from being logged above the maximum sustainable yield or in ways that destroy
bio-diversity. Write to your congressmen/women in support of stronger laws to prevent water
pollution and to require clean-up of polluted waters.

July Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with your friends. Organize a
party to clean up your neighborhood or a local park. Write to public officials
and the media in
support of expanded parks and wild animal, bird, and marine sanctuaries. Write
your congressmen/women in support of expanded protections of endangered species
and their habitats. Write your congressmen/women in support of stronger laws to
prevent air pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, and global warming.

August Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with your co-workers and neighbors. Avoid patronizing TV
programs, music, films, books, magazines, products, and companies that promote
or glorify violence. Get involved with a group that advocates banning personal
use and sale of all guns not appropriate for hunting. Learn and promote methods
of peaceful dispute resolution and weaponless self defense. Get involved with a
group that advocates recognition and enforcement of fundamental rights and
liberties of all, throughout the world. Get involved with a group that provides relief to victims of famine,
disease, and other natural calamities.

September Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with your grandparents and grandchildren. Do
a simple family ritual to give thanks for your harvested fruits and vegetables.
Share your harvest with family, friends, and local soup kitchens for the
homeless. Get involved with a group that advocates
equal opportunity in employment, subsidized retraining for the unemployed, a
living wage, and pro-family working conditions--such as health care, day care,
and reasonable and flexible hours.

October Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with animals; if you can, adopt a homeless
animal. Get involved with a group that helps protect animals from human abuses.
Volunteer to tutor a child at a local school. Get involved with a group that
promotes literacy. Get involved with a group that advocates equal opportunity in
education. Get involved with a group that advocates fully-funded public schools
free of all religious ideology and practice.

November Action Offerings
Make peace with those who died while you were estranged with them. Do a simple
family ritual to honor all ancestors (patrilineal and matrilineal) and friends
who have died. Simplify your lifestyle: reduce
consumption; reuse, maintain, and repair what you can; avoid disposable,
non-recycled, and non-recyclable products. Begin recycling regularly at home, and ask those in your
neighborhood, and at your work, school, and place of worship to start recycling
programs. Start a compost for all your biodegradable waste to help life come
from death.

December Action Offerings
Heal and nurture your relationships with your extended family, in-laws, and any
ex-spouse. Organize a canned food drive for the local food bank. Buy gift
certificates from local soup kitchens or fast food restaurants to give to the
homeless who ask you for help. Put out seed to feed birds and other wild
animals. Buy a living evergreen tree to celebrate the holidays, and plant it in
the yard or a local park afterwards. Gather family or friends to sing at a
seniors' home, hospital, or hospice.

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